Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-20

THE council of French Generals appoint
| ed to investigate the Cafferell matter,
pronounced General CafferelI guilty of
habitual misconduct and unworthy the
confidence of public Office.
THE London Standards Paris CORE
spondent confirms the report that General
Boulanger has been placed under arrest
for the period of thirty days for insolence
| in reply to interrogations by the Minister
of War.
TIE London Chronicles correspondent
| at Berlin says he has learned from an un.
Improbable authority that the condition
| of the German Crown Prince is precarious,
and that DIR. MacKenzie's treatment has
failed.
CONSUL GENERAL CARDwELL Of Cairo,
Egypt, in a report to the Department of
State, calls special attention to the sue
cessful labors of American missionaries in
the valley of the Nile. Nearly sixsthou-
sand native pupils are in attendance at the
| schools that have been established.
NOTORIOUS gang of burglars are fol-
lowing the county fairs through Illinois.
THIEVES are said to be working freight
| cars on the roads running into Danville,
Ill.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has arrived in Lon
don, and the Bulgarian question is once
| more revived as a public topic.
LAFAYETTE County, Mo-, gives a major.
| ity of over 1000 against the Local Option
| law.
| Mrs. HUGHEs-HALLErT appeals to the
| Conservatives not to ask her husband to
resign his seat in the British Parliament.
REV. DAVID r. KERR, D. D., for many
years editor of the United Presbyterian,
| died at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 14th.
| THE jury in the case of Policeman Hahn,
| on trial in New York for the murder of the
brave life-saver, Hussey, rendered a yer.
| dict of not guilty ON the 14th.
THE Bell Telephone Company has in
| stituted suit against the Southern Tele-
| phone Company at Little Rock, Ark, for
| alleged infringement of the Edison
| patents.
JUDGE FIELD, of the Circuit Court at
| Valparaiso, Ind, has issued summons to
the grand jury to convene on the 18th, and
| charges them with thorough investiga-
| ton of the Kouts disaster.
SECRETARY LAMAR, in the case of the
United States VS.. Pearsall and Freeman,
| involving valuable mineral entries of
| placer claims in Colorado, has decided in
| favor of the claimants.
CHARLES EDWARDS, negro, was hanged
at GAINESVILLE, Ga, on the 14th, for the
murder of William Echols, last May. Ed
"dTuS ul0b his FlCUlu Ou d lOHcly TOdu ldtS
at night, and riddled his body with bull
let's.
JOHN A. REYNOLDS, editor of the Atchi-
son (Kas.) Times, was convicted at Lea
! wentworth, on the 14th, of illegal use of the
mails and was sentenced to eighteen
| months Imprisonment and to pay fine
of $500.
ALARM is felt at the bold attitude of
what are known as London's dangerous
classes" 1t is feared that they will go to
plundering stores and shops for something
to eat and wear.
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL MONT
GoMERY, of the Interior Department, has
gone to California for the purpose of rep
resenting the Government in the prosecu-
ton of what is known as the Benton Syn
dictate for fraudulent entry of large tracts
of land in Southern California.
F. RoDDY, constable of Grundy County,
Tenn, was shot and probably fatally
wounded on the 14th by Philip Roberts,
while endeavoring to arrest the latter for
carrying a pistol. A posse of citizens went
in pursuit.
GENERAL BoULANGER, who is under ar
rest, is likely to resign and be elected to
the Fench General Assembly. 1t is re-
ported in Paris that he has already re-
signed, but this is discredited in disinter-
ested circles.
SOME time ago Jerome Staring, of FL
mira, N. Y, sustained injuries by being
thrown from his wagon, his horse having
been frightened by employees of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
who were at work removing wires. A
jury awarded him verdict of $1,000
damages on the 14th.
THE Department of State has been off,
cially advised of the appointment of Sir
Charles Upper, of Canada, as one of the
British fishery commissioners. This last
appointment, it is believed, completes the
British commission, which will consist of
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, Sir Lionel West,
the British Minister to the United States,
and Sir Charles Upper.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY
attached his signature to his peFemptory
resignation of that position early on the
morning of the 18th. He will withhold the
presentation of this document to the as
sembly pending its action upon a report
of the committee on laws which was sub
mitted just before adjournment on the
18th.